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0 pointsvladvasiliu4y ago0 comments

While I fully agree with your issues, and have experienced them too, (although comparing v8 on Linux to v7 on Mac – I don't use 1Password on Windows), those are just UI/integration issues. I don't think they're because of electron, but rather because the remake of the UI is poor.

FWIW, my main gripe is having to unlock each vault separately, as opposed to a single unlock as used to be the case on Mac / iPhone.

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toyg4y ago

> those are just UI/integration issues. I don't think they're because of electron

Electron makes integration harder.

lillecarl4y ago

Why? You don't have to use Electron for everything, you can integrate using whatever language you want and some RPC, like Keybase did.

toyg4y ago

And that's still more involved (and slower) than "just use this function that desktop vendors helpfully provided for the purpose".

lillecarl4y ago

That one part yes, but if you can build most of your application cross-platform and only do certain things with "native" solutions you might get better bang for the buck. Discord and VS Code comes to mind.

vladvasiliuOP4y ago

Fair enough, but I expect browser integration and so forth to be done via the backend, which is rust, so native.

toyg4y ago

Rust is hardly a "desktop-native" language. I expect it will have to jump through all sorts of hoops to interface with the Obj-C underpinnings of MacOS desktop libraries.

Regardless, even if the backend were pure Obj-C, the point is still that now you have a UI stack and a backend stack, instead of a single desktop-native stack, and you have to manage their communications. But I guess the money they save by not managing desktop-specific codebases eventually adds up...

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toyg4y ago

> those are just UI/integration issues. I don't think they're because of electron

Electron makes integration harder.

lillecarl4y ago

Why? You don't have to use Electron for everything, you can integrate using whatever language you want and some RPC, like Keybase did.

toyg4y ago

And that's still more involved (and slower) than "just use this function that desktop vendors helpfully provided for the purpose".

lillecarl4y ago

vladvasiliuOP4y ago

Fair enough, but I expect browser integration and so forth to be done via the backend, which is rust, so native.

toyg4y ago

Rust is hardly a "desktop-native" language. I expect it will have to jump through all sorts of hoops to interface with the Obj-C underpinnings of MacOS desktop libraries.

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